I switched to OpenSUSE last month, and so far so good.
But one thing that I haven’t found yet is a CD ripping program. Yeah, I know, Amarok and K3B will both do it, but both seem a bit fiddly to configure and both are massive programs and seem to be over the top for what I want. When I used Ubuntu/Gnome I used GRip, and latterly RipperX, both of which do pretty much what it says on the tin - they rip CDs. And that’s it. I’d prefer this kind of approach than the ‘everything plus the kitchen sink’ that I get with Amarok and K3B.
Is there any kind of lightweight CD ripper in the OpenSUSE repos?
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gropiuskalle wrote:
> The last version of Grip was released six years ago, though.
But it is small and still does its job.
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Thanks for the replies. SoundKonvertor looks like just the sort of thing I was looking for, although a quick trial run with it seems to suggest that it hogs the CPU and memory?
I wasn’t arguing against Grip here. But compared to current applications Grip offers a rather confusing and clumsy interface (three lines of tabs etc.), today there are much better ways to accomplish such tasks.
This is subjective, of course.
Converting usually is a process that claims lots of resources. You can adjust sK to use only a certain number of available cores by configuring the numbers of running tasks in the settings (one task = one core). Converting and ripping will be slower then, though.
I never watched sK hogging memory, though. What makes you think so?
It was the first CD ripper I found to work all of the time and the features/operation seem simple, sufficient and reliable enough to me. It is still actively supported as well.
Like james I too have used asunder on many, in fact all of the cds I had. Set up is simple it doesn’t hog & you can set it to rip in any extension you want, I’m personally partial to .flac.
Just a quick note to seek further help here. I had been using K3b to rip cds but have had problems with two brand new boxed sets, mainly with CDDB lookup. Tried asunder and this sorted out the cddb lookup perfectly but then I get errors in the ripping. Am ripping to flac but files do not get given .flac ending and there are for example 16 out of 19 tracks reported with errors. Also no means of altering parameters passed to flac encoder.
Tried soundKonverter but this failed CDDB lookup entirely and cannot find how to set correct lookup address for freedb.org so have given up on this one. Similarly couldn’t get morituri to run.
Always used grip in the past and only lost it when I upgraded to 11.4 but thanks to this thread have found it again.
Glad to report it seems to be OK for now. Will return if it falls over.
Thanks to all who contributed above.
Budgie2
I’ve used KAudioCreator for years, and prefer it over all others I’ve tried. You can customize the encoding/file output under Settings -> Encoder -> (Highlight encoder you want or add a new one) -> Configure.
Hi and yes I would like to try this but the link above for 11.4 version no longer works and I assume may not be supported.
Meanwhile further investigation of my troubles suggest that the freedb data associated with each track may be either too long or contain illegal characters. Also those rippers that allow access to the parameters passed to flac such as grip have defaults I do not understand. I have tried only allowing id3v2 tagging but still no joy. I find if I do not have any freedb data then there is no problem so it looks like the quickest solution is to edit tags after ripping. Long tedious task for the 50 odd files of an opera but until I can sort out illegal characters it may be the only way.
Cheers.
Budgie2
Unless you’re lucky, the more obscure/less mainstream music usually require manual editing of tags. I did get lucky recently, I ripped 11 cd’s full of Spanish language lessons and amazingly all the tags from freedb were correct. That would have taken me hours to edit manually…(100’s of tracks).
For tag editing, I use kid3 (and Amarok). If you want to try it: (Install kid3 from KDE:Extra (openSUSE 11.4). I found that it allowed me to do what I wanted simply and efficiently.
